Tirelire Combines & Cie
Rock Demers has been a key figure in the history of cinema in Quebec since the 60s, for his involvement in the promotion, creation and production of films. A co-founder of the Cinémathèque québécoise, he is best known to the public as a producer on the series he initiated, the Contes pour tous. However, we wanted to show with this program the extent of his involvement in cinema that goes beyond Canadian borders, marked by his interest in auteur cinema (he bought the Canadian rights to Charles mort ou vif by Alain Tanner, immediately after its screening at Cannes), in animation (he wrote the screenplay for Faroun, the little clown, directed by Bretislav Pojar), with a predilection for directors from Central and Eastern Europe (Why Havel? by Vojtěch Jasný).
In the presence of the director
Charles, a 12-year-old kid with a flair for business, hires younger kids to do various jobs that people in his neighborhood give him, while he pockets the profits. His best friend and partner, Benoît, takes care of advertising and management to ensure a loyal clientele. He also wants to help his father, who is raising him alone. The two businessmen contact Marie, a budding filmmaker, to produce a commercial that will produce excellent results. The agency grows, but the two bosses don't always agree on the best way to manage it...
Jean Beaudry
Jean Beaudry, born in 1947 in Trois-Rivières, is a Quebecois actor, screenwriter, and director. He made his mark in 1984 with the film Jacques and November, which he co-wrote, directed alongside François Bouvier, and starred in. Continuing his collaboration with Bouvier, they followed up in 1989 with Unfaithful Mornings, where Beaudry shared the spotlight with Denis Bouchard. Bouchard won an acting award at the Namur International French-Language Film Festival, and the film itself received the special jury prize. Beaudry later shifted gears, focusing on directing two children's films produced by Rock Demers as part of the Tales for All series: The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't (1990) and The Clean Machine. After directing the more intimate A Cry in the Night (1996) starring Pierre Curzi, Beaudry took a nearly twenty-year hiatus before returning with another Tales for All film in 2013: The Outlaw League.
Rock Demers
Amazed cinephile, great traveler, Rock Demers left its mark on Quebec’s cinema landscape in addition to children's cinema. Born in Sainte-Cécile-de-Lévrard, he studied pedagogy in Montreal, already showing an interest in knowledge transmission. He then turned to cinema and participated, in 1963, in the founding of the Cinémathèque québécoise along with Guy L. Côté. Shocked by his discovery of Eastern European filmmakers and his meeting with Bretislav Pojar, he worked in the distribution of children’s films by creating the Films Faroun distribution company in the mid-1960s, and a youth section at Montreal’s international film Festival. He then began a career as a producer with Le martien de Noël (Bernard Gosselin, 1971). In 1980, he founded Les Productions La Fête, which saw the birth of his most famous project: the Contes pour tous, a series of films that began with the huge success of La guerre des tuques (André Melançon, 1984). However, Demers does not limit himself to children's cinema, producing works such as Why Havel? (Vojtěch Jasný, 1991) and Le silence des fusils (Arthur Lamothe, 1996).
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